Information Policy

Swiss venture Procivis launches blockchain-backed e-government platform

Procivis, a Switzerland-based startup, has announced that it is going to present its proof of concept for a blockchain-backed e-government platform at today’s Microsoft public sector digitization practice day in Bern.

Korea Group To Spend Over $8m On e-Government Training For 85 Agencies

Not less than 125 government officers from 85 ministries, departments and agencies in Nigeria are presently participating in the Capacity building programme on e-Government.

Data Protection Day: Council of Europe issues guidelines to protect the people behind Big Data

Ahead of Data Protection Day on 28 January, the Committee of the Council of Europe´s Data Protection Convention, also known as “Convention 108”, adopted this week Guidelines on Big Data aiming to assist policy makers and organisations processing personal data to place people at the centre the digital economy.

Relating to the protection of Belarusian Internet users' personal data

January 28 is celebrated worldwide on the International Data Protection Day.

In October 2016 e-baltic.ORG / Baltic Internet Policy Initiative conducted a study on the topic of Internet governance in Belarus.

Among the questions the study was the question of the importance of various aspects of the use of the Internet.

For the Belarusian Internet users question on personal data protection has been one of the most important issues - 87% of respondents believe that it is important or rather important.

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10 tips to share on data privacy day

Online harassment and cyber bullying are real. And, some groups, such as women, are targeted more than others. Sadly, who you are affects how you are treated by others online, as well as offline.